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Wanted: Beta for magic realism story

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southernwriter

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Looking for beta readers for women's fiction. If you like Tarot cards, astrology, and life after death stories, you might go for this. It also contains recreational drug use, the F bomb, and one steamy, explicit sex scene. While the protagonist is female, much of the story deals with male friendships, so I'd like both male and female readers. Here's my current hook (constantly under revision):

When Callie Monroe takes a job at a neighborhood bar called Centerfolds, she intuits something big is going to happen, but has no inkling her life is about to change in ways she could never dream. There, she meets Berkeley Mac, a gorgeous man who looks right through her, right down into her, like he knows all her secrets, a man she senses she has known before. Then she meets Jinx, a sultry siren intent on keeping Berkeley all to herself. Not even the Tarot cards can predict the devious means Jinx will use to drive Callie away, or that Berkeley will die during her exile. Nor could Callie ever guess that he would return from the Other Side to prove his love for her, and assure her he's always been with her. She never stopped loving him, and now she wonders if she can ever let him go again, in spite of the threat to her marriage.

If you want a gander at the first chapter before deciding, you can find that here.

Please send a pm naming your terms. And thanks for looking.
 
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